Josie
Meaning of Josie
Josie is a pet form of Josephine, from the French Joséphine, a feminine form of Joseph. Joseph comes from the Hebrew Yosef, meaning 'he will add'. Josie is pronounced JOH-zee.
In popular culture, Josie is the title character of Josie and the Pussycats, the Archie Comics series adapted into a TV cartoon and a 2001 film. Notable bearers include the English stage and film director Josie Rourke, who directed Mary Queen of Scots (2018), and the American actress Josie Totah.
In the U.S., Josie fell to its lowest rank, 855th, in 1967. It has risen every year since 2016 and in 2025 reached its highest rank yet: 82nd, with 3,021 babies. Among the 100 most popular girls' names of 2025, it was No. 9 for how fast it climbed the rankings from 2016 to 2025.
Pronunciation
British English
- Pronunced as JOH-zee (/ˈdʒəʊzi/)
American English
- Pronunced as JOH-zee (/ˈdʒoʊzi/)
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Notable People Named Josie
| Josie Rourke is an English theatre and film director, vice president of the London Library and former Donmar Warehouse artistic director who made her feature film debut with the Academy Award and BAFTA nominated Mary Queen of Scots in 2018. |
| Josie Sadler was a leading American stage comedienne famed for German dialect routines who made early recordings and Vitagraph silent films before leaving show business to run the electrical research business of her late husband. |
| Josie Duffy Rice is an American writer and political commentator who led The Appeal and cohosted Justice in America, with work cited by The New York Times. |
| Josie Totah is an American actress known for the Disney Channel series Jessie, the film Other People, the NBC comedy Champions, and playing Lexi in the Saved by the Bell revival. |
| Josie Rebecca Davis is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer best known for playing Sarah Powell on the sitcom Charles in Charge from 1987 to 1990. |
| Josie Bennett was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame as part of its first class in 1979. |
| Josie Carroll is a Canadian Thoroughbred trainer who in 2006 became the first woman to win the Queen's Plate and later added more Queen's Plates plus the Prince of Wales and Breeders' Stakes. |
| Josie Pujol was a Cuban violinist who toured Cuba, Canada and the United States in her youth. |
| Josie Stevens is an American model, stylist, TV host, and fashion designer who starred with her husband guitarist Steve Stevens in the 2010 reality series Married to Rock. |
| Josie Tamate - Josie M. Tamate is a Niuean civil servant and former natural resources chief who in 2022 became the first Polynesian to chair the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission. |
| Josie Muscat is a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as a Nationalist MP from 1966 to 1987, later as an independent local councillor in Marsascala from 2006 to 2009, and cofounded Azzjoni Nazzjonali in 2007. |
| British cyclist Josie Nelson rides for the Dutch Women's World Tour team Picnic PostNL and represented Team England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. |
| Josie Morrison is a Canadian speed skater. |
| Josie Simpson is an Australian cyclocross rider who represented her country in the elite women's event at the 2016 UCI Cyclocross World Championships. |
